This study is conducted to examine maternal morbidity and the use of medicinal herbs. A total of 181 women, aged 17-45 yrs gave birth in the last 5 yrs preceding the survey, were enrolled. The study was conducted in Marrakech city, Morocco. The rate of maternal morbidity was 38.1%, while 42% of women used medicinal herbs, 48.3% of them after the delivery. Medicinal plants are mostly used by wom...

The effect of sustained moderate hypoxia on renal blood flow and renal function was studied in the ovine fetus (123-129 days). The experiments consisted of 48 h of isocapnic hypoxia, not resulting in acidemia, but sufficient to produce redistribution of blood flow in favor of the brain at the expense of the carcass. Hypoxemia was induced by maternal nitrogen inhalation. Fetal arterial O2 satura...

This paper presents the effects of salvage value on the optimal age-replacement policy for non-repairable products sold with a renewing free-replacement warranty (RFRW). Cost models from the customer’s perspective are developed for both warranted, and non-warranted products. The corresponding optimal replacement ages are derived such that the long-run expected cost rate is minimized. Under the ...

Wide-area durable storage systems trigger data recovery to maintain target data availability levels. Data recovery needs to be triggered when storage nodes permanently fail, i.e., data is lost. Transient failures, where nodes return from failure with data, add noise to determining that a node has failed permanently. Replica placement strategies maintain data availability while minimizing cost, ...

Sufficient number of linear and noisy measurements for exact and approximate sparsity pattern/support set recovery in the high dimensional setting is derived. Although this problem as been addressed in the recent literature, there is still considerable gaps between those results and the exact limits of the perfect support set recovery. To reduce this gap, in this paper, the sufficient con...

All previous multicopy algorithms require additional space for redundant information equal to the size of the object being replicated. This paper proposes a new multicopy algorithm with the potentially attractive property that much less space is required and equal performance is provided during normal operation. On the other hand, during failures the new algorithm offers lower performance than ...

Gravity drainage is one of the important recovery mechanisms in fractured carbonate and conventional reservoirs. It occurs due to density difference between the gas in fracture and the oil in matrix as well as in conventional tilted reservoirs. Oil phase will form films which are produced under gravity forces (film flow). Many gas injection experiments have been done on laboratory scales with d...

Chronic exercise has been shown to prevent or slow age-related decline in cognitive functions in otherwise healthy, asymptomatic individuals. We sought to assess cognitive function in a stable coronary heart disease (CHD) sample and its relationship to cerebral oxygenation-perfusion, cardiac hemodynamic responses, and [Formula: see text] peak compared to age-matched and young healthy control su...

In order to investigate the influence of particle size on flotation behavior coal slime, industrial analysis, elementary and composition analysis were carried out slime. The slime is divided into three sizes: −0.5 + 0.25, −0.25 0.074, −0.074 mm, full mm sizes. Through contact angle measurement, wetting heat step-by-step release test hydrophobicity each size; in addition, kinetics different size...